"I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance."
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"[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people."
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"Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth."
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"If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself."
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"Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things."
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"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."
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"While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble."
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"Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others."
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"The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy."
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
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"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily"
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"Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment."
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"It is often safer to be in chains than to be free."
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"For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments."
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"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free."
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"Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires."
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"The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is."
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"Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions."
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"I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen."
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"A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or worship and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God's most precious will. . . . There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and strength."
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